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Thursday, December 23, 2010

The winner

I know that ALL of you have been waiting with baited breath to see how many Quilts Of Valor I had in my suburban..... and no one quite guessed. A lot of you got close. The winner was comment 19 NKA... so I have emailed nka to get there quilt of valor quilt kit.

So..... I packed 190 Quilts of Valor in that suburban.... Can you believe it? I think the most I have packed was 222, but this time I took all I had in supply.

The cool thing is that over the years we have done a great job of getting these guys covered, so some of them had already received their QOV's. Plus I have caught some of them at other treatment places they attended off post.

Total amount of QOV's given out that day: 129

but.... on the way home my cell phone buzzed - a LOT. One of the treatment groups that know me, requested 25 QOV's for this week, and then another group that I have contact with needed 15 more....

That leaves me with a grand total of 21 quilts ready to hand out..... Is that amazing or what? I was tickled. Back to the grindstone then, right?

Oh, but wait.... on the way home I picked up 4 QOV"s that Pat had quilted for us, and 3 from a retired Army Chaplains wife..... so after those are washed that will be, ummmm 28QOV's!!

I hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas. I have more pics to share, but I will do that after Christmas. My kids think that I should be baking and wrapping presents *grin*

5 comments:

Oh Alycia, this is so wonderful to hear this time of year. You are definitely Santa Claus to all these soldiers. But now we need to get you some more quilts. I have 4 waiting for labels, 2 waiting to be quilted and a couple more in my head. I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. I was going to wait and send them all to you in one box, but I'll see if I can't get some off to you sooner.

I love to make quilts and hope that the recipient likes it. With personal gifts I usually get to see the reaction, with QOV I don't. I enjoy seeing the pictures of people getting a QOV and it reminds me that the quilts I make go to a real person. Thanks for all you do Alycia.Merry Christmas to you and your family.